KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address on Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin was seeking ways to divert blame for a massacre at a concert hall near Moscow on Friday. “It’s obvious that Putin and other thugs are just trying to blame someone else,” Zelenskiy said. “Their methods …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Bassam Masoud CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -Fighting raged on Saturday around Gaza’s main hospital where Israel says it has so far killed more than 170 gunmen in an extensive raid, which the Palestinian Health Ministry says has also resulted in the deaths of five patients. The armed wing of Hamas and the Islamic …
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By Blair Gable MONTREAL (Reuters) – Canada’s dignitaries, political elite, and other well-wishers gathered at Montreal’s Notre-Dame Basilica on Saturday to pay final respects at the state funeral of former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney, who died on Feb. 29 at age 84. Mulroney’s casket, draped in the Canadian flag, arrived at the Notre-Dame Basilica …
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(Reuters) -Reaction from around the world to the shooting rampage at a concert hall near Moscow on Friday, in which more than 100 people were killed, in an attack claimed by Islamic State militants. UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL “The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the heinous and cowardly terrorist attack …
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By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) – European far-right parties met in Italy on Saturday vowing to curb immigration to the continent and to oppose a second five-year term for European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. The parties gathered in Rome, galvanised by polls suggesting nationalist and far right parties are likely to make strong …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a Russian, a Belarusian and an American en route to the International Space Station (ISS) was launched on Saturday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, live footage showed. The original planned launch was aborted seconds before takeoff on Thursday because of a problem with a chemical power …
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By Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) – A claim of responsibility by Islamic State for a massacre of Russian concertgoers near Moscow appears to be plausible and fits with a pattern of previous marauding attacks by Islamist militants, security analysts said on Saturday. One leading expert said, however, it was unusual and striking that the assailants …
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By Ahmed Fahmy RAFAH CROSSING, Egypt (Reuters) -A long line of blocked relief trucks on Egypt’s side of the border with the Gaza Strip where people face starvation is a moral outrage, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said during a visit to the Rafah crossing on Saturday. It was time for Israel to give an “ironclad …
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By Guy Faulconbridge and Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) -Camouflage-clad gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons at concertgoers near Moscow on Friday, killing at least 60 people and injuring 145 in an attack claimed by Islamic State militants. In the deadliest attack in Russia since the 2004 Beslan school siege, gunmen sprayed civilians with bullets just …
By Daphne Psaledakis and David Brunnstrom (Reuters) -The United Nations Security Council on Friday turned down a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and an Israel-Hamas hostage deal after Russia and China vetoed the measure proposed by the United States. The resolution, on which Algeria also voted no and Guyana abstained, called for …
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